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836:. En route he inspected Singapore's defences β€“ finding them alarmingly inadequate β€“ and visited Australian troops in the field Mid-East. Menzies was well received by the British press. He at times clashed with Churchill in the War Cabinet, and sought assurances for Australian involvement in the Greek campaign. He was unable to achieve significant assurances for increased commitment to Singapore's defences, but undertook morale boosting excursions to war-affected cities and factories. He spent eight successive weekend at Chequers with Churchill, addressed Parliament, stayed with the King, visited Dublin to lobby Ireland to join the war effort and generally raised awareness in Britain of Australia's contribution to its war effort. He returned to Australia via Canada and the United States, addressing the Canadian parliament and lobbying President Roosevelt for more arms production. After four months, Menzies returned to Australia to face a lack of enthusiasm for his global travels and a war-time minority government under ever-increasing strain. 180: 470: 813:(CPA) opposed and sought to disrupt Australia's "imperialist" war effort against Nazism in the early stages of the War. Menzies banned the CPA after the Fall of France in 1940, but by 1941 Stalin was forced to join the Allied cause when Hitler reneged on the Pact and invaded the USSR. The USSR came to bear the brunt of the carnage of Hitler's war machine and the Communist Party in Australia lost its early war stigma as a result. In Menzies' later term of office, anti-communism became an important plank of his foreign policy. 477: 25: 710: 34: 852:
Cabinet β€“ but this time the Labor caucus refused to support the plan. Menzies announced to his Cabinet that he thought he should resign and advise the Governor General to invite John Curtin to form a government. The Cabinet instead insisted he approach Curtin again to form a war cabinet. Unable to secure Curtin's support, and with an unworkable parliamentary majority, Menzies then resigned as prime minister on 29 August 1941.
579:. Defence issues became increasingly dominant in public affairs with the rise of Fascism in Europe and militant Japan in Asia. Lyons negotiated a coalition with the Country Party, led by Earle Page, following the 1934 election, however the parties continued to differ on some questions of economic policy: the Country Party wanted low tariffs and opposed introduction of a national unemployment insurance scheme. 726: 639:
The growing threat of war dominated politics through 1939. Menzies supported British policy against Hitler's Germany (negotiate for peace, but prepare for war) and β€“ fearing Japanese intentions in the Pacific β€“ established independent embassies in Tokyo and Washington to receive independent
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to Washington as Australia's first "Minister to the United States". In a consequent by-election, the UAP suffered a heavy defeat and Menzies re-entered coalition negotiations with the Country Party. In March 1940, troubled negotiations were concluded with the Country Party to re-enter Coalition with
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stood alone against Germany. Menzies called for an 'all in' war effort and with the support of Curtin, amended the National Security Act to extend government powers to tax, acquire property, control businesses and the labour force and allow for conscription of men for the "defence of Australia".
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gathering in Europe and the Pacific, Joseph Lyons became the first Prime Minister of Australia to die in office, suffering a heart attack. The UAP's Deputy leader, Robert Menzies, now openly antipathetic to Country Party leader Earle Page, had resigned in March, citing the coalition's failure to
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campaigns, Menzies reorganised his ministry and announced multiple multi-party committees to advise on war and economic policy. Government critics however called for an all-party government. In August, Cabinet decided that Menzies should travel back to Britain to represent Australia in the War
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Labor narrowly lost the September 1940 Election. The UAP–Country Party coalition and the Labor parties won 36 seats each and the Menzies government was forced to rely upon the support of two independents, Alex Wilson and Arthur Coles, to continue in office.
636:. Menzies tried and failed to have the issue of national insurance examined by a committee of parliamentarians. Though no longer in formal coalition, his government survived because the Country Party preferred a UAP government to that of a Labor government. 678:, and a citizen militia organised for local defence. Troubled by Britain's failure to increase defences at Singapore, Menzies was cautious in committing troops to Europe. In 1940–41, Australian forces played prominent roles in the fighting in the 673:
as leader of the Labor Party both pledged support to the declaration of war. Australia was ill-prepared for war. A National Security Act was passed. The recruitment of a volunteer military force for service at home and abroad was announced, the
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Menzies proposed an all-party unity government to break the impasse, but the Labor Party refused to join. John Curtin agreed instead to take a seat on a newly created Advisory War Council in October 1940. New Country Party leader
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had temporarily been Prime Minister after the death of Lyons, but he refused to serve in a government led by Menzies, and withdrew the support of the Country Party from coalition with the UAP.
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of the Country Party as prime minister, before the independents switched allegiance. On 3 October, the independents, Coles and Wilson, voted with Labor to defeat the government.
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The Country Party under Earle Page announced that they would refuse to work in coalition under a Menzies-led government. The UAP selected Menzies to succeed Lyons regardless.
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In Menzies' absence, John Curtin had co-operated with Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Fadden of the Country Party in preparing Australia for the expected
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allowed Menzies to reach accommodation. A new Coalition ministry was formed including the Country Party's Archie Cameron, Harold Thorby and
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A special War Cabinet was created after war was declared β€“ initially composed of Prime Minister Menzies and five senior ministers (
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My fellow Australians. It is my melancholy duty to inform you, officially, that, in consequence of the persistence by Germany in her
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from 1939 to 1941. Menzies served a later and longer term as prime minister as leader of a successor party, the
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With the 1940 election looming, Menzies lost his Chief of the General Staff and three loyal ministers in a
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In January 1941, Menzies flew to Britain to discuss the weakness of Singapore's defences and sat with
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was appointed Director-General of Munitions Supply to assist with mobilisation of national resources.
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and Country Party operated in a troubled alliance during the terms of the first Menzies government.
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became Treasurer and Menzies unhappily conceded to allow Earle Page back into his ministry.
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for the first time on 26 April 1939, following the death of Joseph Lyons. He led a minority
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as the cause for his resignation. In the absence of a UAP deputy, the Governor-General,
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Lyons served seven years as prime minister, overseeing Australia's recovery from the
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refers to the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister
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was sworn in as prime minister on 7 October 1941. Eight weeks later, Japan
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In addition to the office of Prime Minister, Menzies was Treasurer. The
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The UAP-Country Party Coalition held office for another month with
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gave way to a succession of Allied defeats, as Germany overran the
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was Treasurer from October 1940 and was confirmed as leader of the
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In January 1940, Menzies dispatched potential leadership rival
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The UAP disintegrated after suffering a heavy defeat in the
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in December 1944. The formation of a new party β€“ the
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crash at Canberra airport. In response, Menzies recalled
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For information about the caretaker governments led by
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which met in Canberra on 13 October 1944, and again in
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Monarch
George VI
Prime Minister
Robert Menzies
Deputy
Archie Cameron
Arthur Fadden
UAP
Country
Minority
Majority
1939 UAP leadership election
Page government
Fadden government

Robert Menzies
Early life
State politics
Kooyong
1938 Dalfram dispute
United Australia Party
1939
1943
First term of government (1939–1941)
Entry into WW2
Advisory War Council
Liberal Party foundation
Second term of government (1949–1966)

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